The best movies 1897 Pagina 11

[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of...

Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.

Surrounded by an escort and preceded by the Prefect, President Félix Faure saluted as he advanced.

“This subject taken just after the recent first fall of snow, shows two enthusiastic horsemen indulging in a "brush" with their respective...

Japanese actors act out an early martial arts weapons scene.

A ship in a harbor.

This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.

Alpine shooters perform various boxing exercises.

Taken on the S.P. Railroad, near tunnel No. 9. The train comes rushing out of the tunnel and passes at full speed...

Daily practice of life boat crew, showing boat being upset purposely by the men. As these boats are self-righting and self-bailing, the scene is...

Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.

Procession of the sacred carpet.

African men dance, sing and play instruments.

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.